Effigies of Kings at Westminster Abbey
One of my favourite museums in London is the one I consider the most truly macabre. It’s not the London Dungeon or a torture chamber in the Tower – it’s the museum at Westminster Abbey with its funeral effigies of English Kings.
There seems to have been a tradition of displaying the monarch’s body openly in public. It was one way of making sure the king had died ‘honestly’ – not been made away with – though apparently, the murderers of Edward II managed to avoid being traced by the use of a red hot poker and a piece of antler. …read more
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